2016-03-19 18:53
I've not been feeling the blogging recently, and I'm off on holiday for a month, so consider this blog in a state of suspended animation.It'll probably still be updated more regularly than D… Read More
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"Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret."
- Mr Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
2016-03-19 18:53
Yes, yes, I'm a bad and lazy blogger, but I'm breaking my silence to draw your attention to this. It's a post by Abby Lee, aka Girl With A One Track Mind, about her 'outing' as a sex blogger… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This will be my first Christmas in London (well, someone has to bagpipe FACT into NEWS, don't they?) and it's pretty eerie so far. At the risk of sounding like a right old Scrooge, I dislike… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
"Talking in bed ought to be easiest," wrote Philip Larkin. "Yet more and more time passes silently..." Well, I know something else that's supposed to be easiest in bed: sleeping. (Stop snigg… Read More
2006-12-07 19:04
After a couple of false starts, I finally got round to watching Heston Blumenthal's In Search of Perfection on BBC2 the other night. I chanced upon last week's edition, focusing on pizza, on… Read More
2006-11-28 12:14
I have returned from the mini-break intact and without having a major argument. (Or even a minor one, actually, apart from the strop I threw on realising Boyfriend had not thought to pack sm… Read More
2006-11-24 18:50
Tomorrow, Boyfriend and I are going on a mini-break, a word which gives Leon no end of amusement, but strikes fear into my heart. I'm just certain that Boyfriend and I are going to have a ma… Read More
2006-11-16 20:07
DISCLAIMER: If at any point during this point I sound like a braying arse, I apologise. It's the subject matter - honest.I went to a wine tasting last night. The residual student in me was s… Read More
2006-11-12 19:42
Last week, I did two very sad things indeed. I joined Facebook, and fell off the YoHoHo Puzzle Pirates wagon.Facebook first: I've been resisting for ages, ostensibly on moral grounds (I'm fa… Read More
2006-11-06 18:59
On Monday I went to Cabaret at the Lyric theatre - and jolly good it was too. Try not to be too shocked when I tell you that up until then, I had no experience of Cabaret at all, apart from… Read More
2006-10-29 21:55
I know, I know, ok, that there's no point having a blog and just leaving it for days on end, like leftover pizza in the fridge. My reasons for not blogging are both tedious and manifold, so… Read More
2006-10-17 15:24
On Friday, the Boyfriend took me out for lunch at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, the kind of place that makes me want to say, "It's so hot right now" Zoolander-style.On paper, it sounds brillia… Read More
2006-10-11 12:26
There are two types of parties - ones that make you feel good about yourself, and ones that make you feel bad.My birthday party last weekend was of the former type - I was wearing a ridiculo… Read More
2006-10-11 12:22
Like Harry Hutton, I am obsessed with Christopher Hitchens. We just approach him from different sides, as it were - I love the Hitch with an uncritical adoration which borders on the teenage… Read More
2006-10-05 11:03
Yesterday was most easily comparable to a forced death march down memory lane. I'm writing this from my parents' laptop (noting with horror that their wireless broadband, as installed by my… Read More
2006-09-27 15:46
Back when I were nobbut knee high to a grasshopper, there was a great TV programme called 'The Daily Show', which broadcast only in America. So we used to go the Comedy Central website, and… Read More
2006-09-26 13:59
You may notice that action has been a bit slow on the old blog front. This is due to the double whammy of work getting really busy - someone, somewhere, having apparently noticed I exist - a… Read More
2006-09-20 16:00
I had lunch today with an 'acquaintend' - halfway between a friend and an acquaintance - and it made me feel horrible. The woman, who we'll call Honey, is one of those people who is so perfe… Read More
2006-09-14 12:25
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2006-09-14 12:23
Has Gordon Ramsay spread himself too thinly?That's what I started to wonder at lunch at La Noisette in Knightsbridge, the latest outpost of the Ramsay empire.The location is either inauspici… Read More
2006-09-12 11:13
At the moment, my house resembles a cross between a refugee camp and a self-storage warehouse. Yes, it's housemate changeover time, with two in, two out. Or as it has become, one off on holi… Read More
2006-09-08 15:50
(I promise you, this is the last time I will mention this.)Got a delightful letter from Barclays this morning. "In our previous letter [no, I didn't get one] we promised to provide you with… Read More
2006-09-05 16:31
I have a phone again! Thank you God, thank you baby Jesus. It's only taken seven calls to 02, one visit to an 02 shop, £10 for a new Sim card and a two week wait - now that's what I ca… Read More
2006-08-29 15:38
Having realised that my jaunty collection of frou-frou skirts is not going to see me through the cold winter, I've been doing lots of clothes shopping, or rather browsing, which always puts… Read More
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